ληρεῖς (lereis)

ληρεῖς is an Ancient Greek form of ληρέω, meaning “talk nonsense”. It is the 2nd person singular present active indicative.

Found 27 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Aristophanes, Clouds 500: κατάθου. τί ληρεῖς;

Lucian of Samosata, Dialogi mortuorum 7.2: … εἰς ἕτερον τόπον. Ὀρθῶς μὲν λέγεις· καὶ τοῦτο δ’ οὖν μέρος τῆς καταδίκης, τὸ ἐπιθυμεῖν πιεῖν μηδὲν δεόμενον. Ληρεῖς, ὦ Τάνταλε, καὶ ὡς ἀληθῶς ποτοῦ δεῖσθαι δοκεῖς, ἀκράτου γε ἐλλεβόρου νὴ Δία, ὅστις τοὐναντίον τοῖς ὑπὸ τῶν λυ …

All forms of ληρέω (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.